VOL 24 No.^flP Afl l1 * Agriculture the promise of 80’s Penn State's Ag Progress Days, the largest outdoor agricultural exhibition in the East, takes place August 21-23 at the Rock Springs Research Center. This ’ edition of Lancaster Farming provides a glimpse of what’s in store. Please refer to the In this Issue block, below, to find specific information, such as schedules, maps, exhibitors roster, etc. See you at Ag Progress! Ag Progress Days begin Tuesday UNIVERSITY Park - The theme for this year’s Ag Progress Days, which are slated for this coining Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at Penn State University’s research farm near Hock Springs, is “Agriculture - The Promise of IheSO’s.” _ “It focuses on new research and technology the College of Agriculture and the agriculture in dustry is providing to improve the quality of life of the people of the Commonwealth, nation, and world,” explains Dr. Joseph Harrington, Penn State professor of agronomy and field days chairman. Approximately 200 commercial companies will be exhibiting their newest prducts for home, farming, and country living. On display will be In this issue Farm Calendar 10 Editorial 10 Carlisle Fair 15 Dauphin hog show 16 FFA hog show 18 Holstein field day 20 Life on the farm 23 Franklin pig show 24 Crop report 26 Family farm strength 28 Adams 4-H’ers 27 Fashion Revue 35 Homestead Notes 82 buildings, farm machinery, silos, feeds and seeds, and other farm and home supplies. “In the field demon stration area, Ag Lime-Rock Holstein is Eastern champ By DIETER KRIEG KUTZTOWN - Lime Rock Farms of Myerstown, made famous in past decades by the late Hubert Miller, on Monday added yet another honor to its many laurels. Roy Miller and nephew, Carl Weaver, showed the grand champion Holstein at the Eastern Pennsylvania Championship Holstein Show. It was held here at the Kutztown Fairgrounds with more than 300 animals en tered m the competition. Miller and Weaver exhibited Lime Rock Astronaut Sue Apple, a 3- Jr. Cooking 84 Home on the Range 88 Joyce Bupp 94 Kendy’sKollumn 102 World food prices 112 Ag Progress map 114 Ag Prog, exhibitors 114 Ida’s Notebook 118 FFA dairy show 124 Cumberland 4-H’ers 154 York DHIA 162 Md. dairy princess 168 Cheese imports 190. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 18,1979 Progress Days visitors will have an opportunity to compare the efficiency of this' year’s line of harvesting equipment,” Harrington said. year old daughter of Astronaut. Named reserve senior and reserve grand champion was entry No. 257, a senior 2-year old owned by the Donald Seipt Family of Easton. She is sired by Edeal Pinoma Matt Tippy. The Seipt Family were big Disease outbreak cuts tobacco crop By DEBRA STRICKLER MANHEIM - Blue mold, a fungus disease normally found only in seedbeds, is creating serious losses to local tobacco producers. According to John Yocum at the Pennsylvania State University research farm near Landisville, this is the first tune blue mold has had such widespread affects on the tobacco crop in the field. The fungus is causing a variety of symptoms on the plants. Earlier there may have been blue mold seen growing under the leaf. With the hot weather of a few weeks ago, much of the blue mold has disappeared resulting in yellow spotting and dead areas on the leaf. Other activities inclde family living programs, commercial exhibits, field machinery demonstrations, field crops exhibits, forest winners at this year event, capturing the Premier Breeder banner outright, and half of the Premier Exhibitor banner. The Donald Hostetter Family of Parkesburg claimed the other half. Third place in the Exhibitor race went to Steve Although the mold has disappeared, the fungus may have entered the bud or woody tissue of the plant. The woody tissue conducts the food and water up and down the plant. If the fungus entered the bud and woody portion when York County has top meat judges By DIETER KRIEG YORK The results have come in from the 4-H State Achievement Days, held at Penn State University last week, aqji the figures show York County has by far the best 4-H meat judging team m the state. A quartet of young men - Bob Livingston resource activities, en vironental education events, horticultural and agronomic displays, dairy and livestock programs, safety and Wendy Shaw, a brother sister team from Oiey. Their parents are Mr. and Mrs. James Shaw, partners in Linden Loch Holstems. Joyce Weaver, from Glenmoore, exhibited the junior champion, a senior yearling sired by Quality the plants were quite small, the plant did not grow and produced suckers and sucker-like growths below the soil surface. Since blue mold is spread by spores blowing in the wind, the disease may have entered the stalk at a later of Davidsburg, John Miller of Seven Valleys, Bill Wise of Spring Grove, and Leroy Bowles of Red Lion - left the rest of the competition without so much as a scrap of the honors. They placed 1- 2-3-4, respectively. Their coach is York County Agent Tony Dobrosky. $7.00 Per Y^ar demonstrations, theatre tent activities, ed cuational exhibits, statewide nay crop silage (Turn to Page 13) Ultimate. Runner-up in that contest waff David Bomgardner, showing a daughter of Mil-Harv Ivan Pickland. The tall, stretchy heifer stood first m the junior yearling class. Champion bull honors (Turn to Page 12) growth stage. The plant may have appeared to grow normally, until it wilted during the hot part of the day. Some plants have snapped off at the ground. Even plants reaching the topping stage have shown (Turn to Pa?e 10) Obviously, the individual performances gave the meat judges a commanding lead in the team standings. They were good for a total of 1759 points, compared to 1526 points for the second-place team from Washington (Turn to Page 38)
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